Example sentences of "could [be] [verb] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be argued that inadequate finance and higher mortality rates among small firms is a reflection of the way market forces allocate scarce capital according to long-term growth potential . |
| 2 | Without relative truth to hold on to it could be argued that absolute Truth , which is a matter of faith , would be nothing but empty utopianism . |
| 3 | It could be argued that centralized INSET has this character of necessity , and that the other possibilities can be achieved through school-based INSET . |
| 4 | In theory , Parliament is the supreme legislative authority in the United Kingdom , but it could be argued that real power , as opposed to authority , is located elsewhere in the hands of the Cabinet or Prime Minister or leaders of industry . |
| 5 | Wax as a modelling medium does certainly have the advantage of making sharp and fine decoration possible , but it could be argued that fine clay , at the right degree of plasticity , is more useful . |
| 6 | Even in this regard however it could be argued that physical geography has not reacted sufficiently to undertake research on major global problems such as the increase of atmospheric CO 2 , the incidence of acid rain , the demise of the Amazon rainforest , the implications of world soil erosion , or the general field of environmental pollution . |
| 7 | However comprehensive the pre-planning of such a situation , it could be anticipated that preliminary reconnaissance , the dispositioning of appliances , the gaining of access by the very limited facilities which such premises can offer and the initiation of a co-ordinated attack of conventional equipment would take even longer and that a fire may have developed to unmanageable proportions by the time such an attack could be mounted . |